![]() ![]() “When the agent turned in at the lane leading to an upright farmhouse with book-end chimneys, a porch along the front, magnolia trees, and a meadow along a river, I was ready to sign the dotted line before I opened the car door,” she writes. ![]() Readers will also visit some new locales, namely Chatwood, the North Carolina farmhouse where she and her husband, Ed, live when they’re not in Italy.Ĭhatwood spoke to Mayes much like Bramasole did: It was instant love. In A Place in the World, Mayes’ fans can revisit some familiar places, such as Bramasole, the villa in the Tuscan countryside that she famously renovated in Under the Tuscan Sun, and the humid and fragrant Fitzgerald, Mayes’ Georgia hometown and the subject of her memoir Under Magnolia. It’s a subject about which she knows plenty, having made so many homes over her lifetime. In Frances Mayes’ sparkling new collection of essays, she ponders the meaning of home. ![]()
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